Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects (500)

publisher: IST Press
year: 2015
description:"This book presents a particular perspective on Correspondence Analysis methodology based on the practical experience of the authors in applied research in the topic and in related areas in Data Analysis. The target audience for the book includes stu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This volume analyzes the corruption phenomenon in Africa and how to combat it from a governance perspective with illustrated case studies from three of the most corrupt of those nations covering, respectively, the Southern Africa region (Swaziland); ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book contributes to our understanding of a neglected and poorly-understood concept within the development field: ‘capacity development’ in the context of human and organisational sustainable development. Relating ‘capacity development’ to other ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:The book takes the reader into the world of women who become actively involved in various mobilization processes in the peace and conflict situations in Chiapas and in Northern Ireland. Detailing how women cross identity boundaries in regions of conf...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cult...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This edited volume features a wide spectrum of the latest computer science research relating to cyber deception. Specifically, it features work from the areas of artificial intelligence, game theory, programming languages, graph theory, and more. The...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:The end of the Cold War, the Revolution in Military Affairs, 9/11 and the War on Terror have radically altered the nature of conflict and security in the Twenty-first Century. This book considers how developments in technology effect the prosecution ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Die politische Bedeutung innergesellschaftlicher Feindschaft erfasst Matthias Epe am Beispiel des Bürgerkrieges in Guatemala von 1960–1996 sowie in der unmittelbaren Folgezeit dieses Konflikts. Davon ausgehend, dass der innere Feind ein politischer F...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks like in a deeply divided society and to understan...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Führen die sozialen Medien zu einer einseitigen Pseudo-Informiertheit von Bürgern und verstärken damit die Polarisierung der Gesellschaft? Der Nachrichten- und Informationskosmos im Internet befindet sich im Umbruch – mit beunruhigenden Folgen für di...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book addresses several gaps in knowledge of aid allocation and effectiveness and provides new analytical insights. Topics covered include the interface between aid allocation and perceptions of aid effectiveness, the year-on-year volatility of a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book examines development aid for climate change adaptation. Increasing amounts of aid are used to help developing countries adapt to climate change. The authors seek to discover how this aid is distributed and what constitutes the patterns of a...